50 years ago, the Apollo 11 moon landing was televised live to some 600 million viewers back on planet Earth. One of them was future Long Now co-founder Brian Eno, then 21. He found himself underwhelmed by what he saw. Footage from the television transmission of the moon landing. Surely, there was more gravitas to the experience […]
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Thinking in terms of complex potential states instead of complex adaptive systems may be helpful in our times Something about the epistemological foundations of complex adaptive systems has been bothering me. It is very hard to think of complex systems without framing agency in the context of adaptation — in complexity science we see it everywhere. This alone
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A proposal for a joint participatory design process by Britain and the EU to shape a prosperous relationship for a new future Theresa May has lost the Brexit deal vote. This is the preliminary end of a process which was driven by abuse of power, wrong judgment, inadequate planning, hate, fear, disintegration, division, deceit and a complete
We need new narratives and stories! 2019 can be made by us to the year in which we once again begin to tell stories: forcefully and enthusiastically. Over the last few years we’ve been almost paralysed by Trump and Brexit, by autocrats and populists who like long forgotten shadows emerged from the woodwork of history.
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https://medium.com/media/c64163ae6f94ed603f5442c3c4f0d584/href Sensemaking Up-Hierarchies Information Flows Designed for Emergent Complexity In complex environments, teams are built for emergent outcomes. This means they need to be optimized for coherence. Coherence refers to a particular dispositional state of a team, where the complex feed loops between trust, power and action thresholds are optimized for flow (see A Source
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A History of Land Art in the American West, Part III Source: The Center for Land Use Interpretation. As installation begins at the Texas site for Long Now’s monumental 10,000 Year Clock, it’s worth taking a step back to examine the Clock’s larger artistic context and its place in the history of Land Art in the
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A New Type of Conversation, The Rebel Wisdom Summit In these polarised, fractured times, what does a real conversation look like? One where people feel free to speak their minds, change their minds, and to create the possibility of something genuinely new emerging. How do we discuss ideas and disagree with one another in a way
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A New Type of Conversation, The Rebel Wisdom Summit In these polarised, fractured times, what does a real conversation look like? One where people feel free to speak their minds, change their minds, and to create the possibility of something genuinely new emerging. How do we discuss ideas and disagree with one another in a way
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Over the past decade I’ve watched with alarm the widening polarization of the body politic across Western societies (and to some extent globally). As commonly recognized, the public is split into irreconcilable political factions who disagree not only on the interpretation of events, but on what events even took place. They have seemingly separated into
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